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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 4-12 | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | FacilitationOptionsDecision | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |